IFES is pleased to announce the publication of Asian Perspective vol. 46, no. 2 (Spring 2022). The issue is available online at the PROJECT MUSE database: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47833.

Asian Perspective is published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Kyungnam University.

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ASIAN PERSPECTIVE | VOL. 46, NO. 2, SPRING 2022
Table of Contents
North Korea
Measuring North Korean Marketization: An Index Approach
Seungho Jung, Moon-Soo Yang, and Byung-Yeon Kim

Communist Regimes
Famine and Regime Response in Post-Cold War Communist States:
Political Commitment, Food Distribution, and International Aid in Cuba and North Korea
Jisun Yi

China-Taiwan Relations Strategic Responses to Chinese Election Interference in
Taiwan’s Presidential Elections
Kimberly L. Wilson

Environmental Protection – East Asia
Implementing the Minamata Convention on Mercury: Will China Deliver?
Gørild Heggelund, Kristin Rosendal, Steinar Andresen, Eirik Hovland Steindal, Lin Yan, Wang Shuxiao, and Zhang Haibin

South Korea
Democracy and South Korea’s Lemon Presidency
Seung-Whan Choi

Envisioning Regional Order: Inter-Korean Relations and the Varieties of Regionalism in South Korea
Il Hyun Cho

Multilateral Security – Northeast Asia
The Role of Mongolia in Multilateral Security Cooperation in Twenty-First Century Northeast Asia: Relevance of the ‘Ulaanbaatar Dialogue (UBD)’ Initiative
Jaehyuk Jang and Kisun Kim